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The WSU Student Technology Fee Committee recently approved two funding requests from the Pullman libraries, including replacement of laptops for checkout and the creation of a new Synth Lab. Students and staff worked on the committee proposals, which will receive funding in July. “I am so grateful for our students and our colleagues who work […]

Virginia Woolf scholar Emily Kopley will present two lectures on Dec. 3 and 4 at Washington State University’s Holland and Terrell Libraries. Kopley describes Woolf’s personal library, the writer’s exploration of poetry, and the cover art of To the Lighthouse, inspired by Woolf’s 1902 edition of English poet William Wordsworth. WSU purchased Woolf’s private library […]

Only a tiny percentage of the approximately 3,000 barns in Washington are round. Enchanted by their beauty, complexity, and historical significance, Tom and Helen Bartuska have been researching, visiting, and photographing the Pacific Northwest’s round barns since the 1960s, shortly after Tom accepted a teaching position at Washington State University’s architecture department. “Barns—especially round barns—are […]

When newly minted Washington State University graduate Jasper Willson brainstormed ideas for her Honors College thesis, someone asked her what she would do if she could work on any project. As a multimedia journalism major, Willson wanted to focus on video production, she said, and she had always wanted to make a video of the […]

With over 30 years of serving the WSU Libraries, Bonny Boyan said she especially enjoyed conducting new employee orientations and getting to know all the staff, faculty, and student employees who joined the libraries in that time. “It was a pleasure to see their excitement over starting a new job and to provide them with […]

A poetry collection from Native American writers of western Washington and a Palouse Country history and pictorial artbook are among new available titles from WSU Press. A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology: At the Confluence of the Green and White Rivers, curated by former Poet Laureate and journalist Susan Landgraf, originated from a grant and more than […]

Before Ann Dyer became director of the WSU Health Sciences Library in Spokane, she served as a research and instruction librarian at the Maine Maritime Academy. In some ways, the job was not unlike what she does as a medical librarian today. “Working at a maritime library allowed me to hone my experience of being […]

Last June, WSU Libraries and the Washington State School for the Blind collaborated on an exhibit, a popup experience called “War of the Dots.” The exhibit’s goal was to engage blind and low-vision students in the history of tactile print, connecting accessibility challenges of the past with the present day. Now, exhibit collaborators are organizing […]

The Inlander’s Azaria Podplesky writes that art and outer space have always gone together, with creators of all mediums endlessly inspired by the knowns and unknowns of the galaxy. Add WSU Libraries’ Jason E. Anderson and Kahyun (Kate) Uhm to that list. The two musicians created Music for Observations, a series of free live electronic […]

The national Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded $334,000 to WSU, institutional partners, and nine Native American nations to extend their work advancing collaborative curation between Native communities and non-Native repositories. The funding is part of CLIR’s “Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices” grant program for digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by […]